Listen. Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion. What the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago. We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war. David for more on what could come next, im joined by National Security analyst retired Lieutenant Colonel bob mcginnis. Hes author of the book progressive evil. Good to see you here, colonel. Senator graham was read in apparently on the killing of soleimani and what he had been planning and why he was killed. Senator graham said he was ready to unleash holy hell on our embassy. Any doubt in your mind what he was up to . Hes been doing this for decades, david, and he has as you pointed out quite a reputation of killing certainly training shia militia to kill u. S. Forces there as well as to recruit for, you know, bashar all assad in syria. Alassad in syria. He equips to attack the saudis and hezbollah to attack the israelis. Hes a bad character. If there was evidence of an imminent attack against our diplomats, our soldiers in that country, of which we have more than 5,000, then yes, its a legitimate to go after him and to remove the scourge that he has created across the middle east. David now, the question of what the iranians do next is open to a lot of different possibilities. And people who look at it logically say, you know, they would have to be out of their minds to do anything to the United States because, you know, they are extraordinarily weak right now because of our sanctions. We are extraordinarily strong because of the work that donald trump has done in building up our forces over the past three years. But they are insane. I mean, thats the crazy thing about dealing with the iranians. You are never quite sure like a mad dog, you are never sure what they are going to do next. Theyre autocrats. We need to recognize that khamenei is a dictator, he using the quds force irgc and other militia in his own country. They have killed perhaps 1500 of their own people in the last few months. If theyre willing to shed their own blood, they could care less about american blood and would like to do that. Now, but what are they going to do . I think that first, they are going to sit back and say well, were not in a rush. However, were going to unleash the shia, and you saw that attack this evening. I think thats after the shia militia that are all over that country. They run the place to a certain degree. Of course i think we will see perhaps attacks against u. S. Facilities in saudi arabia as well as bahrain. You will see an acceleration of their Nuclear Program which of course will give the israelis, you know, a concern, legitimately so. There are other things. I dont think, though, they may try like they did in 2011 here in washington, d. C. , you know, stage an assassination attempt. David right. They went after the saudi ambassador at that time at a local restaurant. Now, thats more sophisticated, more difficult, but they could possibly do that and a host of other things. David colonel, years ago i did a documentary about a hezbollah cell that was broken up here in the United States. It was back in 2001. It was kind of obscured by the events of 9 11 because it happened right around the same time that we busted the cell down in north carolina. They were selling cigarettes illegally, sending Million Dollars back to their comrades in lebanon. That was the only hezbollah cell that we know of that was busted here in the United States. Are there other sleeper cells that we dont know of that exist now here . Well, in south america and central america, we know and have known for some time hezbollah. Some of them have been trained by quds force. Have they infiltrated in this country . We have had some reports that perhaps. I know there are a lot of iranians in this country. I dont know how many are showing their patriotism towards the United States or are there some that are divided in their allegiance to perhaps the ayatollah. Thats something, you know, im sure Homeland Security is going to look at, david. David right. But i think the probability is more they are going to try to get targets close in. They will go after u. S. Personnel in baghdad and basrah and perhaps kirkuk and other places in iraq, a lot easier than coming to washington, d. C. Or new york city. David finally, very quickly, it is the response by the media. We will get into that later on in this program, but some of the irresponsible stuff thats come out is makes you sick, literally makes you sick. One of them is comparing soleimani and his quds force to u. S. Special forces. You heard that repeated over and over again today. The main difference of course Vice President pence made that clear today in a series of tweets is that our special forces do not specifically target civilians, while as theirs do. Thats precisely what they do. Thats what makes them terrorists and not special forces guys. Theyre very indiscriminate about who they will kill or injure. Clearly they did a lot of that damage in iraq, but they are doing it all over the world and would continue to do so if given the opportunity. You know, soleimani, no ones going to miss him except perhaps the Ayatollah Khamenei because he was his hitman. Thats the sort of thing we were dealing with. David i wish our media and some democrats were a little more discriminating in terms of making these comparisons with our folks, but apparently theres no lower bar than what they can crawl under. Thank you very much, colonel. Good to see you. Appreciate you being here. Meanwhile, democrats on capitol hill, chief among them, House Speaker pelosi complaining that they were not consulted about the strike and certainly would not have authorized it. Pelosi writing in a statement, quote, we cannot put the lives of american servicemembers, diplomats and others further at risk by engaging in provocative and disproportionate actions. Tonights airstrike risks provoking further dangerous escalation of violence. America and the world cannot afford to have tensions escalate to the point of no return. Well, does pelosi not realize the whole purpose of this strike was to protect the lives of american servicemembers who are about to be taken by these terrorists . Joining me now is former National Security advisor to Vice President dick cheney, steve yates. It is extraordinary. Sometimes you look for logic and you shouldnt because a lot of these are just political statements, but they are complaining that they werent told, pelosi, schiff, a lot of democrats, they are complaining they werent told, but clearly if they had been told, they would have said nothing doing, mr. President , we cant support that. I think it is probably better they werent, dont you . Absolutely. I mean, a shocker of all shockers that people who have been known to leak sensitive National Security information through the sham impeachment process are not going to be consulted about sensitive military operations related intelligence, at any point, much less now at a sensitive time. David yeah. It is not surprising that they werent in the consultation loop. At the same time, all they are trying to do is a very orchestrated communication strategy by obama and clinton likes trying to distract away from obamas provocative weakness. That weakness brought us to where we are today and trump is cleaning up the consequences. David theres also an issue of timing. You had to make a decision very quickly. We had eyes on this guy maybe for a few minutes before we could order this strike properly. And yet, we havent learned anything from benghazi. The one thing beyond anything else that we learned about benghazi is the longer you wait, the more you put lives at risk, and the president knew that better than a lot of these democrats. Well, the founders were very clear. Its been upheld by multiple terms of president that the commander in chief, and theres only one elected at a time, much to the chagrin of the democrats who are trying to remove him, theres only one commanderinchief at a time specifically in place to make these kind of operational decisions. This is not a longterm engagement. This is not a military campaign to invade and occupy another country. This is defending american sovereign territory of an embassy and also striking back against the most destabilizing force in the region to keep the Pressure Campaign on them. David you have people trying to cover up their tracks of mistakes that they made in dealing with iran. One of them is a woman named Wendy Sherman who worked with john kerry in his state department. She helped develop the iran deal which gave the iranians billions of dollars. She wrote a piece today saying trump walked into irans trap. How is preventing a full scale attack on our own Embassy Walking into irans trap . Well, she would be an expert on traps, having walked into them in north korea and iran multiple times before. However, its definitely not a trap, to send appropriate forces to defend american sovereign territory, our diplomats, and our soldiers. And theres no question that for decades the republican revolutionary guard have been out there creating this problem, and President Trump was the first president that had the gumption to go ahead and hit them hard inside the country of iraq. That i think is an important signal that goes beyond just iran. David by the way, another thing Wendy Sherman did was accompany john kerry after he left the state department on trips, meeting with iranians kind of discussing the problems of the new President Trump and how to maybe get around that. I mean, that was something that made state Department Secretary pompeo almost cry out treason. It was very very close. I mean, democrats tried at the beginning of this administration to accuse people of the mostly defunct logan act violations. A lot of the shenanigans that were pulled at the end of the obama years and the actions taken against Trump Officials were based on the idea of people who were not yet in office engaging in Foreign Policy while the previous president is in charge. Thats exactly what these people were doing in violation. They were going and undermining the president s policies and American National interests for their political purposes. David absolutely. Surprisingly we have washington games that go beyond our shores from time to time. David steve yates always a pleasure to talk to you. Appreciate you being here. The liberal media actually praising listed known terrorist iranian general soleimani and criticizing President Trumps attack. He was a revered he was a very popular man fairly brazen, fairly awe fairly audacious. Almost something of a cult figure. David tonight an iranian american democrat is here to call out the liberal media. 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Speaker pelosi still sitting on the articles of impeachment the house passed weeks ago. Republicans say pelosi knows just how weak the case is, so shes holding it back from an actual trial. And now Chuck Schumer has a brandnew excuse. They have new evidence apparently so the trial needs to call more witnesses than democrats actually want. Senate leader mcconnell shooting back immediately. Watch. The same people who just spent weeks screaming at impeachment with so seriousness and so urgent that it couldnt wait for due process now decided it could wait indefinitely while they checked the political whims and look for some new talking points. We have heard it plain that the same House Democrats who botched their own process should get to reach over here into the senate and dictate our process. Their turn is over. Theyve done enough damage. Its the senates turn now. But we cant hold a trial without the articles. David is mcconnell calling pelosis bluff . Joining me now House Judiciary Committee member Arizona Republican andy biggs. Good to see you, congressman. What happens next week . Is pelosi going to appoint house managers and get this thing moving, or is sh e going to continue to drag her feet . Well, you know, david, it is good to be with you. I can tell you with nancy pelosi, i believe she doesnt know what shes going to do. I have heard rumors both ways. That shes going to appoint house managers and get it over there and others that she will keep holding on. Dont forget, just about a week before now, about ten days ago, you had the Judiciary CommitteeChairmans Council indicate that they were going to continue to investigate and try to find Something Else to impeach this president on. I mean [laughter] david forgive me for laughing but the bottom line is its the only impeachment thats completely partisan and it is the only impeachment that begins without any kind of real crime. So my feeling is is that shes dragging her feet and waiting until some kind of charge drips out. Now, schumer, the senate the leader of the democrats in the senate, Chuck Schumer, has come out with these new emails from the omb that he claims shows that the president himself did put a hold for longer than they had said previously on the aid to ukraine. Is there anything there, or is this just more boy crying wolf . This is just another red herring. What the American People have not heard from the democrats is this, President Trump released the funds at an appropriate time as required by law. In fact, he had another three weeks he could have held it for another three weeks. He didnt. He released it by law. If the democrats wanted this aid leased sooner , released sooner they could have specified that in any number of ways in the legislation they authored and passed out. But they didnt. So here we sit, you and i laughing at the democrats because nancy pelosi has a tiger by the tail. She doesnt want to let go of it because theres teeth on the other end. Thats really where she is. David you know, there was a charge that came out of the intel committee, and that was bribery, but it never made it through Judiciary Committee where you sit because clearly, clearly they couldnt use the bribery charge because it fit joe biden much better than it fit donald trump. Well, certainly joe biden fits the bribery charge, but they couldnt figure out how to explain what President Trump did and whether there were elements of the bribery offense which there werent under the federal offense. So remember, they had the law professor from stanford, she spent so long trying to explain how this was bribery that it basically took all of the air out of the room and you never heard them talk about bribery again. David thats true. By the way, the Washington Post had a piece last summer about how joe biden was trying when he was Vice President , joe biden was trying to get u. S. Aid, that is taxpayer money, to go into the gas industry in the ukraine. Now, that could be more than bribery. Thats misuse of u. S. Funds going into the pocket of his son, if in fact that happened. Has anybody looked into that . Well, weve been real busy doing other stuff. David im sure. I believe there are some folks looking into that as well because that would be misappropriations and Money Laundering as well. David i think mr. Dunham has been looking into that. We may hear his report soon. Congressman biggs, wonderful to have you on this friday. Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you very much. You know trump derangement syndrome is bad when the liberal media actually praises a terrorist over President Trump. Listen. He was a military geni